Tag Archives: Integrity Staffing

Just before the Thanksgiving holiday, the Department of Labor (DOL) released an ominous blog post for employers, as they tend to do from time to time. Last time, it was to promote its official timekeeping app, and this time it ...

Last week, we discussed the rules governing when for-profit, private sector and non-profit employers could accept “volunteer” services. Private sector employers have very little flexibility, while non-profit employers have a little bit more. The third group of employers, public sector employers, have the ...

In yesterday’s post, we discussed the rules governing when for-profit, private sector employers can accept “volunteer” services. In short, the answer is not very often. However, public sector and nonprofit employers have more flexibility when under the Fair Labor Standards ...

Earlier this week, a reader commented on our Integrity Staffing discussion with this question: If an employee-who normally processes insurance claims-volunteered to decorate a bulletin board for a special event and arrived to the employer’s premises an hour before the start ...

We seem to have talked quite a bit lately about the Supreme Court’s interpretation of “integral and indispensable” activities under the Portal-to-Portal Act in Integrity Staffing Solutions, Inc. v. Busk, but with good reason. The decision is having a broad impact on ...